He took on the editorship of F1 Racing in December 1996 and left it in December 2007, by which time F1 Racing had become the world's best-selling grand prix magazine, according to its own strap-line which appears on its front cover every month.

Bishop is known in Formula One circles as 'The Bish' and is known for his larger-than-life wardrobe that includes a seemingly-limitless number of very garish shirts.

Bishop's journalism was published in F1 Racing and Autosport.com, for which he used to write a famously trenchant fortnightly column entitled 'From the Pulpit'.

On 26 September 2007 it was announced that Bishop would leave Haymarket, publisher of F1 Racing and Autosport, to become Head of Communications and Public Relations for the McLaren Group, effective January 2008.